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I found this quite interesting, but not sure what to make of it: Jeremiah 31:27 The days are surely coming, says the Lord, when I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of humans and the seed of animals. 28 And just as I have watched over them to pluck up and break down, t...

one argument for a proto john is if john were actually using a source for some of it's material and adding a narrative John reminds me of the way a few gnostic texts do this So this would be the first person Jesus stuff of an older revelation or treatise. maybe the prologue John seems quite suited ...

It only make sense that v14 is referring to what just happened in v12-13. The way this is traditionally read, v14 comes out of nowhere and is unexplained until Mark 6. This is accepted because Mark is read after Matthew, but this makes no sense on Markan priority, where anyone reading this would ha...

Getting back to the OP. Once we accept that it was John who was driven into the wilderness and "delivered to Satan", we can then see that in this story both John and Jesus are "delivered to Satan". The story opens with the delivering of John to Satan and closes with the with deli...

Thanks for the info thus far. I figured someone would call me out for not mentioning Arthur Drew's The Christ Myth :p Anyway, what I've gleaned is: Catholic priest Lorenzo Valla published a treaties exposing the Donation of Constantine as a forgery in 1440. Exposure of this forgery contributed signi...

What are the main important milestones in biblical scholarship starting with the Protestant Reformation? There is of course the Protestant challenges to Peterine primacy, there is the theory of Markan priority, the identification of the Synoptic problem, the acknowledgement that the Gospels are not ...

I get the impression that there was an early tradition of a John - probably [mostly] John, son of Zebedee - telling of a revelation from/by a Saviour/Christ/Jesus and of this eventually being usurped by [perhaps new] narratives about this Saviour-Christ or a Saviour-Jesus* +/- the Christ descending...

The birth stories of Matthew and Luke are clearly late and reactionary additions to earlier narratives that gave no account of a birth of Jesus. They are specifically anti-docetic inventions. The case that the birth accounts are late anti-docetic inventions is very strong. So much has been done on ...

I agree that the birth stories are late additions. I think this really be beyond question at this point. I have come around to the idea that the first Gospel was simply ambiguous about the origins of Jesus, but likely inferred that he was indeed a person, not that he descended from heaven. But it wa...

What is this evidence? I am not inclined to take your word for it. I don't feel like hashing this out again, so I'll just say that there are many papers written on this topic Which do you have in mind? It's an interesting topic. Here's a simple example: https://www.logos.com/grow/when-mark-goodacre...